Alone in the Dark Chapter Five
Lots of thanks to DeityofLostSouls. Finally a review! I'll try to go into more detail in the chapters to make them longer. It's just that… I like leaving at the dramatic parts. It is great fun to do that. Again, I do not own any Spirited Away characters. Don't steal the ones I make up. They're mine! Enjoy the next chapter.
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Haku woke up. He forgot where he was, and what he was doing. Then, everything flashed back to him. And worse than that, more blindingly terrible pain returned to the back of his skull. He felt back there and felt a huge bump, and he felt a trickle of blood flow slowly down the back of his head. He looked around and found a towel near him. He grabbed it and pressed it against the gash. He held it there, even though it caused him even more pain, but it was better for it to stop bleeding. He paused. He started to go through exactly what happened before he fell unconscious. 'I remember that the lights went out, and I was hit with something heavy. And Chihiro, she was… gone. I have to find her, and fast. Whoever did it is very powerful. Wait a minute.' He started to talk out loud. "I fell unconscious at the top of the bathhouse. Someone had to have carried me down here." He began thinking. "But why?" I have to get to the bottom of this. He ran off into the dark corridors. He was headed toward Yubaba's chambers.
After several minutes of running, he stopped to check his gash. It had stopped bleeding, but still hurt. He dropped the towel and continued on. He ran until he came to the bridge. "I can't risk it," he decided. He hovered above the ground across the bridge. Then he stopped hovering and hit the ground. He saw his own blood hardened on the floor. He bled quite a bit more than he imagined. It made him almost uncomfortable. He continued up the elevator two floors and emerged out into Yubaba's main hallway. The silence was nerve-racking. He continued on through the main door. The lights were all on. Someone was inside. He proceeded on very cautiously, ready for just about anything. He heard a laugh of in the distance. Through each room he proceeded the doors shut and the lights flickered out. Whoever this was they were a master at tricks. Haku just hoped that they wouldn't get too serious and have someone actually get fatally hurt. He felt that the gash in his head wasn't very bad. In fact, the pain was already decreasing. Haku entered Yubaba's office. The chair inside was turned around and he knew someone was in it. He just didn't know who. A low voice rang out, "To whom do I owe this visit," said a familiar voice. Haku was surprised. It sounded like Yubaba's voice. The chair spun around, and Haku was extremely in awe when he saw that it was Yubaba that was in the chair.
"What are you doing here?" Haku asked her.
"Why simply relaxing and enjoying a beautiful night." Yubaba replied. She smiled a very wicked looking smile.
Haku knew something wasn't quite right. He used an revealing spell that could get through almost any disguise. The face of Yubaba disappeared, and a new face appeared. It was a familiar one of Haku. It was a boy's face, almost identical to Haku's but looked a few years older. "Hello, brother." Haku muttered. The face smiled.
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Chihiro sat up. She wished she could speak, for she didn't know where she was or why. She remembered being grabbed and hit on the head with something blunt. She didn't become unconscious quite then, but she remembered she was dragged somewhere. The she fainted, and now she had no clue where she was. She was tied up and gagged. Luckily it was loosely, and she squirmed and was able to get her hands free. She was glad too, because she was in a very uncomfortable position. She pulled off the gag over her mouth, and was finally able to talk again. She didn't though. First she wanted to find out where she was. It felt like she was in the middle of a huge bundle. She untied her legs and came to the top of the bundle. She was surprised when she saw that she was in a pile of pillows in Yubaba's baby's room. "Why am I here?" she asked quietly. "Why would someone drag me here?" She stopped and looked around. The room had torn fabric everywhere, and was a huge wreck. The ceiling rotator was stuck and several parts of it were broken. She gasped in amazement. "Who could have done this?" she wondered. She decided to be as quiet as she could and investigate. She walked out of the room and continued down the mirrored hallway. The hallways were dim, but they weren't destroyed and torn up like the last room. She explored a little down the hallways, and then stopped. She heard something. No, she heard someone. Someone talking in a room not too far from where she was. She tiptoed extremely quietly to the edge of Yubaba's office, for that was where she thought she heard the talking. She peeked around the corner and looked inside. She saw Haku and another boy circling each other. They were talking quietly but she couldn't quite make out what they were saying. She cupped her hands around her ear and listened again. She heard the other boy talking.
"You're a thief Haku, and everyone I know knows it. Father told me to punish you terribly." He stated.
"I did not steal anything," Haku replied to him.
"Look money became missing from our family, and you had just struck it rich apparently. Everyone thinks it is you, and so do I. Word spread quickly that you were here alone, so I brought along a few of my buddies for your punishment. Stage one is already complete. Unluckily for you, stage two is much worse. Much worse indeed."
An evil smile appeared on his face. "He isn't a thief," Chihiro said quietly, "Haku would never steal anything." Sadly she forgot to be whispering, and to even her surprise she said it a little louder than her comfort zone allowed.
The older boy looked over at Chihiro, as so did Haku, for they both heard her. Haku was horrified. She looked in terrible condition. "Ah, looks like my next target just woke up," the older one said with a grin at Haku.
"No!" Haku yelled after him. He grabbed his knife. His brother was faster. He took out a knife of his own, and slashed Haku's face with it, and a long trickle of blood began to trickle down his face. He uttered in pain as his brother took off, he ran to Chihiro grabbed her, and carried her into a different room.
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There's the end of chapter two. Quite a stretch compared to the other chapters. Again, and I'm sorry I have to keep writing this but please review my story. I'm a little short on them. I need to know what to improve on. Total of words in this single chapter: 1,400 words.
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